Florida RB Chris Rainey confident heading into NFL Draft

Former Gators RB Chris Rainey ran a 40-yard dash that was timed as low as 4.36 seconds at Pro Day this morning, but he did not need to prove his speed. Instead, he wanted to show NFL scouts that he could be a valuable slot receiver.

“Definitely,” he said. “You see Wes Welker in there. That’s who I’m trying to be like.”

He also said he has schedule private workouts with the Cincinnati Bengals and Philadelphia Eagles.

Here are some of Rainey’s other thoughts from Pro Day:

– On what people tell him about his draft stock: “I tell them to not talk to me about that because I don’t want to hear all that bull crap, so I just want to have fun and wait till draft day.”

— On how he would pitch himself to an NFL general manager: “All I say is I’ve got good character, good personality. I’m a playmaker. I make guys miss. I catch balls. I score touchdowns. I love to win. I can compete.”

— On being asked tough questions about his character, including a 2010 arrest for stalking: “Only thing was that off-field issue, that’s it, because that’s the only time I got in trouble ever in my life.”

— On what teams ask about the incident: “They wanted to hear it from the horse’s mouth, that all. As soon as I tell them, ‘That was the first time I was in love,’ they just cut it off right there.”

— On being a threat at multiple positions: “My goal is to confuse the scouts and they do the rest.”

— On being similar to Percy Harvin: “That’s a perfect comparison right there. We do the same exact thing. He’s just bigger. That’s the only difference.”

— On being relatively small at 5-foot-8, 180 pounds: “I’ve been 180 consistently but it ain’t nothing. If you’re going to be a playmaker on the field, that’s all that matter.”

— On whether he ever believed five years ago he would get his college degree: “No chance. I thought I was going to be three and out. Didn’t happen. I was here five years, so I was like, okay since I’m here this long I’m going to go ahead and graduate.”